Improvement in stoves



K J. RrHYDE.

Cooking Stove.

No. 37,966. Patented March 24, 1863.

Jaw 22.5%

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. HYDE, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVQES.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES R. HYDE, of the city of Troy, in the county of Bensselaer and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in such stoves as have a boiler suspended with one side against the upright rear end; of the stove, of which invention the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stove embodying my invention; and Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the same stove and its boiler, separated, while the same letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

Stoves have been heretofore made with a removable boiler, A, suspended against the upright back plate, B, of the stove by means of fasteniugs so arranged on the side of the boiler next adjoining the stove that the weight of the water in the boiler would press the latter, or rather the lower and greater portion thereof, close against the upright back plate of the stove, and thereby promote the heating of the water in the boiler, examples of such stoves bein g shown in my application for a patent filed in the United States Patent Office in the year 1858, and in United States Letters Patent No. 35,564, granted to Charles Eddy 8t 00., as my assignees; but in such stoves the boiler was attached or hung to the upright part of the stove, so that the Weight of the boiler and water therein tended to tilt over or pull out from the stove the upright plate or plates thereof to which the boiler was suspended; and in such stoves the boiler was hung on catches or brackets formed on and projecting out horizontally from the upright part of the stove in places where they served no useful or ornamental purpose, but to hold the boiler, and where they were more or less in the way when the boiler was removed from the stove; and those projecting catches or brackets were quite difficult to cast perfectly on the upright part of the stove, and were liable to get broken off in the transportation and use of the latter; and the points where the boiler was suspended were somewhat below the top of the boiler, so that it was difficult to make the upper part of the boiler hang tight against the back plate, B, of the stove, for the tendency of the weight of the boiler and water therein was to pull away from the stove all that part of the boiler which was above its points of suspension.

Now, in order to avoid the above-mentioned defects, and also secure the advantages hereinafter specified, I hang the boiler A, with one upright side thereof against the upright back plate, B, of the stove, from the ordinarily projecting part, c, of the horizontal top plate, D, of the stove, by means. of hangers e e, rigidly secured to the boiler and extended above the top f thereof, on the side next adjoining the stove to and into suitable holding sockets or recesses, g g, in or through the projecting part of the said top plate. By thus having the places 9 y, where the boiler is loosely hung, above the top f of the boiler the weight of the boiler and water therein will press the uppermost part of the upright side of the boiler, as well as the lower and. main portion thereof, hard against the adjacent upright back plate, B, of the stove; and by thus hanging the boiler to the top plate, D, of the stove the weight of the boiler and water therein will pull the said top plate firmly down on the top edges of the back and side plates, B H, of the stove, and will also press the back plate, B, firmly against the rear ends of the side plates, H, and thus tend to hold the parts of the stove together when the latter is composed of separable plates united together in the common manner; and by thus suspending the boiler A from the ordinarily projecting part, 0, of the top plate, D, I

not only avoid adding any projecting parts or brackets to the upright part of the stove, but do not require the top plate, D, to project any farther outside of the back plate, B, than it generally does in the stoves in common use with no boiler at the rear end thereof; and the recesses or openings at g g may be easily cast in the top plate, D, and the boiler A may be readily taken from andrehung upon the stove.

I do not now claim as new a stove havinga removable boiler fitted sidewise to and suspended against the upright back plate of the stove, so that the weight of the boiler and water therein will press the boiler, or the lower or greater portion of the upright side thereof, close against the said upright back plate of the stove, such a stove being shown in my aforesaid application and patent, but with the boiler hung at points somewhat below the top f of the boiler, and on the upright part of the stove,

What I claim as new and 'of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A stove having a boiler, A, suspended with one upright side against the upright rear end, B, of the stove by means of hangers e 6', extended up rigidly from the boiler, and loosely engaged with the ordinarily projecting part, 0,

of the top plate-,iD, of the stove at places 9 g above the topf of the boiler, and over the side or portion thereof nearest to the stove, substantially as and for the purpose herein described and set forth.

JAMES R. HYDE.

Witnesses! JAMES FRUo'r, H. E. PAINE. 

